Platytyphlops taylorae Gerken 2018, n. sp.

• Main Author: Gerken, Sarah
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Cumacea; Lampropidae; Platytyphlops; Platytyphlops taylorae; East Antarctica; Seta; Antarc*; Antarctica; Enderby Land
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3799184; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3799184

Platytyphlops taylorae n. sp. (Figs 65–67) Type material. Holotype: ovigerous female, NMV J62274, 66 °2’54”–3’S, 49°49’24” E, 738–806 m, off Enderby Land, East Antarctica. Paratypes: ovigerous female, dissected, NMV J62275, 66 °2’54”–3’S, 49°49’24” E, 738– 806 m, off Enderby Land, East Antarctica; subadult male, dissected, NMV J54363, 66 °2’54”–3’S, 49°47’54”– 49°50’E, 690–911 m, off Enderby Land, East Antarctica, 29–30 November 1985. Diagnosis. Carapace with 4 pairs of lateral ridges, covered in small pits, marginal carina entire, ridge present on pseudorostrum; eyelobe without lenses or tumidities. Antennule article 1 not expanded; accessory flagellum 1.0 main flagellum. Telson shorter than uropod peduncles, with 3 terminal setae, central seta less than half length of outer pair. Uropod endopod article 11.4 length of articles 2 and 3 together. Subadult male carapace without pits, dorsoventrally flattened relative to female. Telson as long as uropod peduncles, with 3 equal terminal setae Description. Holotype ovigerous female, NMV J62274, paratype ovigerous female, NMV J62275. Ovigerous female, holotype 7.6 mm, paratype 7.0 mm. Carapace covered with small pits, dorsoventrally flattened, dorsolateral posterior expansion, dorsal carina posterior 0.5 of carapace, 1 short posterior lateral ridge, 1 longer mid-lateral ridge, 1 short ridge from anterior margin on pseudorostral lobes; pseudorostral lobes 0.3 carapace length; eyelobe 0.1 carapace length; carapace 1.2 length of pereonites together (Fig. 65 A–B). Paratype ovigerous female, NMV J62275, 7.0 mm. Antennule peduncle article 1 longest, surface scaled, 1 pedunculate and 4 simple setae; article 2 0.75 article 1 length, with 4 simple setae; article 3 0.7 article 2 length, with 4 simple setae; main flagellum of 4 articles, with simple setae and 2 aesthetascs terminally; accessory flagellum of 3 articles, equal to main flagellum, with simple setae (Fig. 65C). Antenna of 4 articles; article 1 with 1 pappose seta; article 2 unarmed; article 3 margin serrate, with 1 ...